Most Americans (and more and more people across the globe) associate October with Halloween. Each year the 31st if October is all about trick-or-treating, dressing up as your favourite serial killer, lighting bonfires and playing pranks on your friends. And isn’t it nice to just relax and have fun every once in a while? Halloween came at the right time judging by this overview of e-invoicing and AP automation news in October 2012, because a lot has been done in the tenth month of the year. Oh, and is your colleague really that nice guy he always seems to be..?
Headlines
- XS Invoice Conference 2012 matches service providers and end-users
- The E-invoicing Checklist: more information [part 18]
- The E-invoicing Checklist: acquisition fraud [part 17]
- The E-invoicing Checklist: adoption tactics [part 16]
- Kewill added to list of E-invoicing Platform members
- Quantum Mechanics of Invoicing: Banks or B2B providers [part 2 of 2]
- The E-invoicing Checklist: ensure controllability [part 15]
Product information
- Itella’s NetPosti is doing fine
- Datacert’s Passport GRC makes short work of inefficiencies
- Invoiceware extends SAP ERP Compliance Dashboards for Brazil
- There’s only one way to reach 100% electronic invoicing
- OB10 Express Payments improves companies’ cash flow
- Ariba gets honorary title “leading P2P Technology provider”
- 6 e-invoicing and AP automation news bytes
- RBS shortlisted for Best Use of IT in Wholesale/Transaction Banking
- Datacert’s Passport goes mobile
- Tradeshift embraces interoperability with OFS Portal agreement
- Best of e-invoicing and AP automation in September
Customer cases
- Bouwmaat follows essential innovation through e-billing
- C1000 upgrades P2P process with Descartes’ Validation Service
- Dow easily moves from in-house to cloud with AuthentiDate
Policy/legislation
- Give the EC your view on e-invoicing in public procurement!
- Portugal complies with Council Directive 2010/45/EU
- Let’s publish some more on EU e-Invoicing Standardisation
- Indian SMEs are opening up to cloud technology
- Bruges first to embark on e-invoicing project
Research
- EDI VAN providers need to lower their prices
- 20% drop in supplier resistance to e-invoicing adoption
- Companies keep missing golden opportunity to generate revenue
- Connecting suppliers biggest obstacle to uptake of e-invoicing
Mergers and acquisition
- The Basware Certipost buyout from BPOST’s perspective
- Basware buys Certipost’s Einvoicing network AND activities for EUR 18,2 million
- TIE enters DACH territory with ascention takeover


